Hullo there! Well now, there’s been a lot of fun on this forum over the last two Sunday nights and so I thought I’d resurrect myself personally and THE EAMONN ANDREWS SHOW on Sunday for one night only on Sunday when I’ll be introducing some more surprise guests.

Now for those of you who don’t remember, or those of you who do, the Eamonn Andrews Show was the first ever live chat-show to go out on British television live. I personally interviewed hundreds of drunken stars of stage, screen and radio who tried, and indeed succeeded, to make me, myself, look incompetent.

Right. Now while I can’t tell you who my surprise guests will be here on Sunday, I can say that there will be many, many surprises when we discuss School Corporal Punishment, which I know my surprise guests have experienced, as indeed I have.

And with that, goodnight!


Edited by Ralphy

Miles:

Ought we allow this to go ahead? It is in poor taste. Eamonn was adored by millions of people themselves personally.

Ralphy

If you do indeed allow this person to go ahead with a bastardisation of what was one of the greatest programmes ever seen in this country, then you will lose another contributor, that is I, myself. Moreover, I shall not even lurk here, along with the thousands of other poor lonely souls.

I may be persuaded to change my mind if Eamonn were to have Fran as a surprise guest.

I very much doubt that the highly-trained moderators of this forum will allow us here in Wembley to go ahead with the resurrection of The Eamonn Andrews Show here tonight.

If it does not go ahead here tonight then we shall be bitterly disappointed, as I am sure you will be, and will from tomorrow, or next Friday, cease to contribute to this forum.

Eamonn was a wonderful chat-show host and if at times he was not quite in control of the proceedings, then it was not his fault. The blame must surely lie with those guests such as Laurence Harvey, Ted Ray and David Bailey who set out to make him appear intellectually inferior. (I must say here, in an attempt to placate the moderators, that one should not draw a parallel between the Eamonn Andrews Show and this forum. NO ONE is made to feel inferior here!).

As an example of the kind of boorish behaviour with which Eamonn had to cope, here is what happened on the third show, transmitted in 1964. (Sexual innuendo was not allowed to be broadcast on British television in those days, particularly on a Sunday, and Eamonn, having had the fear of God put up him by the Christian Brothers was, at least in public, a very prim man even by the standards of the time).

Eamonn’s guests were Sixties sex-symbol Diana Dors, blunt-speaking cricketer Freddy Trueman and less-than-subtle comedian Jimmy Edwards.

Very soon into the programme Jimmy Edwards steered the conversation to his famous eleven-inch-long handlebar moustache. Then he said, “A moustache is a sort of barometer of your sex-life, you know…”

Freddie Trueman interrupted, “By the look of it, you’ve got a heck of a long one.”

Jimmy Edwards pressed on. “When it droops a bit it means you haven’t had it recently”, he said.

“Let me just talk to….” said Eamonn, but Edwards, not a man to be put off his stroke cried, “I’m talking to the ADULTS now, Eamonn.

Diana Dors joined in with, “Would you like me to give your sex-life a trim, Jimmy?”

Eamonn, now sweating profusely, made a desperate effort to get them away from the subject. And in doing so, he came out with one of the most bizarre introductions ever heard on television.

“Freddie, you’ve just been to Australia,” he said suddenly. Puzzled by this non-sequitur, Freddie Trueman just nodded. Eamonn stumbled on, “I think everybody here has been to Australia. This is just my excuse for bringing in a young lady from Australia, Miss Patsy Anne Noble!”

Patsy Anne Noble, a singer, who was waiting behind the scenes for the introduction that Eamonn had so painstakingly rehearsed with her, was pushed on to the set by an alert stage manager. She was further stunned when Eamonn followed his odd introduction with an even odder question. “Now, Patsy,” he said, “have you ever been to Australia?”

The singer stared at him in amazement. “But you know I have,” she finally managed to stammer. “I was born there. You’ve just said so.”



Until tonight……..possibly.